Betsy Ross

Betsy Ross shows her U.S. flag to George Washington (left) and other patriots, in a painting by The Granger Collection, New York

(17521836). No one knows who really made the first official American flag. According to tradition, the credit for the Stars and Stripes belongs to Betsy Ross. One of her grandchildren claimed that Gen. George Washington, accompanied by Col. George Ross and Robert Morris, brought a rough sketch of a flag to her Philadelphia upholstery shop in June 1776. Washington supposedly asked her

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